Formulations of participation and nonparticipation in trainees' narratives of school-to-work transitions

Journal article

In this article, I examine trainees' construction of vocational identities through formulations of participation and nonparticipation in the various systems that constitute the British vocational sector. Combining a discourse-analytic perspective on identity with insights from activity theory on the relations between learning, identity and participation in practice, I draw on Lave and Wenger's (1991) notion of communities of practice to describe the different settings and social networks in r...

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Authors: Bennert, K

• Journal: Text
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 369-392
• Publication date: 2002-01-01
• EISSN: 1860-7349
• ISSN: 0165-4888